Climate change communication from cities in the USA

Boussalis, Constantine; Coan, Travis; Holman, Mirya R.

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2223-1

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“…Political science research demonstrates that leaders use public communication to credit claim and establish themselves as policy entrepreneurs [26]. Consistent with past scholarship [26][27][28][29], we argue that press releases from mayors' offices represent a key mechanism for agenda setting and credit claiming. Agenda setting includes the actions of raising policies as worthy of local attention, political action, and resources [30].…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…We utilize the corpus of city press releases introduced in Boussalis et al [29]. These data include all press releases for the 50 largest American cities, while also including the releases of a matched set-based on population and share of white residents-of 32 "control" cities chosen to ensure sufficient variation in climate change vulnerability.…”

Section: Press Release Corpusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The vast majority of city press releases, however, do not related to climate change and thus a necessary first step is to identify relevant articles. (p. 177, [29]) introduce an approach that combines an efficient sampling procedure for identifying press releases that could be related to the issue of climate change with a supervised learning approach to classify the releases that are highly likely to be about the issue of climate. We replicated this procedure, training a slightly optimized version of the linear support vector machine (SVM) reported in Boussalis et al [29] (see https://github.com/traviscoan/ city_climate_resiliency for replication code and data).…”

Section: Press Release Corpusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consistent with scholarship from political science [44], we proxy voter partisanship with the the county-level vote share in presidential elections. More specifically, we follow Boussalis et al [29] and rely on the proportion of votes for President Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election as a measure of the Democratic leaning in a city. Lastly, we use data from Boussalis et al [29] to measure the party identification of mayors.…”

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“…After measuring the urban climate policy agenda landscape-based on a computer-assisted content analysis of city government press releases-we (1) describe the extent to which climate policies appear in the official communication of 82 major American cities and (2) examine the influence of key climatic, political, economic and demographic covariates on the likelihood of discussing four key policy areas (emissions, energy, land use, and climate resiliency). Our research moves beyond previous scholarship [29] by employing a computational model suitable for measuring specific policy areas related to climate adaptation and mitigation, and testing expectations regarding the extent to which mayors will prioritize these policy areas. We anticipate that mayors will use press releases to credit claim and set the agenda on climate policy in a strategic manner that reflects three components:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

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City governments have a large role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, given that urban locales are responsible for disproportionately high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are on the “front lines” of observed and anticipated climate change impacts. This study examines how US mayors prioritize climate policies within the context of the city agenda. Employing a computer-assisted content analysis of over 2886 mayoral press releases related to climate change from 82 major American cities for the period 2010–2016, we describe and explain the extent to which city governments discuss mitigation and adaptation policies in official communications. Specifically, we rely on a semi-supervised topic model to measure key climate policy themes in city press releases and examine their correlates using a multilevel statistical model. Our results suggest that while mitigation policies tend to dominate the city agenda on climate policy, discussion of adaptation efforts has risen dramatically in the past few years. Further, our statistical analysis indicates that partisanship influences city discussion on a range of climate policy areas—including emissions, land use policy, and climate resiliency—while projected vulnerability to climatic risks only influences discussion of climate resiliency and adaptation efforts.

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Subnational bipartisanship on climate change: evidence from surveys of local and state policymakers

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Stecuła

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change over the years, there has been much more progress among state and local governments. But is this progress on climate change policy at the subnational level merely a reflection of the dominance of the Democratic party in certain regions of the country, or does it reflect successful bipartisan action? In this essay, we present novel evidence from two surveys of subnational policymakers, conducted in 2015 and 2017, to demonstrate that there is widespread bipartisan agreement among Republican and Democrat policymakers at the subnational level about (1) the existence of global warming and (2) what to do about it. Specifically, a majority in both parties believe global warming is happening and support the use of renewable energy mandates-rather than cap-and-trade, carbon tax, or emissions standards-to address the problem.

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Co-benefits as a rationale and co-benefits as a factor for urban climate action: linking air quality and emission reductions in Moscow, Paris, and Montreal

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If local governments reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they will not see effects unless a very large number of other actors do the same. However, reducing greenhouse gas emissions can have multiple local “co-benefits” (improved air quality, energy savings, even energy security), creating incentives for local governments to reduce emissions—if just for the local side-effects of doing so. Available empirical research yet shows a large gap between co-benefits as a rationale and an explanatory factor for climate mitigation by local governments: co-benefits are seemingly very large, but do not seem to drive local mitigation efforts. Relying on policy documents, available research, and other written sources, the present paper consists of a multiple case study addressing the link between co-benefits and climate mitigation in Moscow, Paris, and Montreal. Air quality plays a very different role in each case, ranging from a key driver of mitigation to a liability for local climate action. This heterogeneity of mechanisms in place emerges as a likely explanation for the lack of a clear empirical link between co-benefits and local mitigation in the literature. We finally discuss implications for urban climate action policy and research.

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Climate change communication from cities in the USA

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Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

Subnational bipartisanship on climate change: evidence from surveys of local and state policymakers

Co-benefits as a rationale and co-benefits as a factor for urban climate action: linking air quality and emission reductions in Moscow, Paris, and Montreal

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